Interactions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Every year, I receive multiple emails and Facebook ads reminding me that I need to make sure I tell that special someone how much they mean to me. Greeting cards at the store read “You make me feel special,” “Thanks for always being there” and “Valentine, you just get me.” . When it comes to providing good customer experience, the same relationship qualities apply.

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Cyara

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valentine’s Day is upon us, so I bet I can guess what’s on everyone’s mind: Your CX life. You might be asking yourself, how important is CX? How can I get better at CX? Is my CX performance meeting expectations? Customer experience (CX) (.what did you think we were talking about?) is just that, an experience that the customer takes away from any interaction with your business.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A customer success strategy is a proactive plan for guiding your clients to outcomes that satisfy their needs. When your customers enjoy more value, your product adoption rates rise and customer retention rates go up. This promotes success for your company as well as your customers. In this guide, we’ll lay out a seven-step customer success strategy you can use to promote winning outcomes for your clients: Prioritize a culture of customer success.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Is customer experience worth it? This is a question I get all the time. C-level leaders want to know if customer experience (CX) is worth the investment. Customer-focused employees across marketing, sales, HR, and other departments want to know if new CX initiatives are worth pushing for. Even organizations with running CX programs are often wondering how those efforts are paying off.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From customer service to customer satisfaction and loyalty, here are 20 quotes to motivate you to deliver a great customer service experience.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

You may or may not know that I’m a magician. Some of you may know that I’m also a musician. But today I want to talk about being a magician. Growing up throughout high school and college I performed at parties, corporate events and comedy clubs. That experience in show business gave me the stage chops to start my business as a professional speaker. I share this background to give you some context.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Build vs. Buy. The epic question faced by IT leadership everywhere. With the Project Management Institute (PMI) painting a bleak picture of in-house IT projects – indicating that 14% of IT projects fail outright, 31% don’t meet their goals, 43% exceed their initial budgets, and 49% were delivered late – the facts on the ground show that it’s not always a question of whether your team can do it, it’s about whether they should.

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Kerry Bodine

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. (Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?) That practice often brings up a question during client conversations: To what degree should our personas represent different races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, etc.? It’s Black History Month here in the United States, and that seems the perfect time to answer this question in a public forum.

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BirdEye

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We’re well into 2021 and while a new year brings lots of change, some things remain the same. After winning multiple awards in January, Birdeye continues to be the most-awarded and highest-rated reputation management software for businesses of any size. . G2 2021 Best Software Awards. G2’s Best Software Awards ranks the world’s best software companies and products based on authentic reviews from real users.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This week we feature an article from Veronika Filipkova, a professional content editor and Chief Customer Officer at SupportYourApp. She shares different channels and strategies for creating the most convient customer support experience for your customers. According to Deloitte’s 2019 Global Call Center Survey , customer service topped the agenda for most firms. 85% of respondents believed that the customer experience was vital to success. 78% of participants believed that improving customer ser

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

. As we think ahead to how we want 2021 to go, you might be thinking about professional goals and ways to grow your skills over the next year. One very accessible way to do that is through LinkedIn Learning , which is an offering of video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills. What makes LinkedIn Learning so attractive is it is all on-demand to allow you to view courses anytime that works with your schedule, also when you complete a course you earn a certi

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Totango

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Totango, Inc., the largest and fastest-growing customer success platform, today announced that G2 has recognized the company as one of the Top 50 Best Software Companies for 2021. G2, the largest software marketplace and review platform, annually names its list of best software companies based on authentic, timely reviews from real users. “We are honored to be named to G2’s prestigious Top 50 Software list for 2021,” said Guy Nirpaz, CEO and Founder of Totango.

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One Millimeter Mindset

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Are you busy delivering non-stop, one-way output to your team? If so, you may fall short of creating opportunities to impact, engage, inspire, take action, and innovate. Together. When you target a cross-functional team leadership trajectory, professional success leverages more than delivering presentations during meetings. As a result, acknowledging your comfort with your default delivery style becomes mission-critical to leading by example, cross-functionally.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Make Every Day Valentine’s Day by Showing Love and Empathy to Customers by Janelle Estes. (CMSWire) Valentine’s Day is approaching.

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Upstream Works

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As 2021 unfolds, the stakes have never been higher for contact center leaders to invest in the right technologies. Many contact centers still struggle with the limitations of legacy technology and premises-based systems, and the disruption from COVID-19 has intensified the urgency to modernize. When it comes to strategizing which technologies to adopt, there are many layers to consider.

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Advantage Communications

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Today’s most successful outsourced contact centers are using innovative technologies and state-of-the-art tools to deliver world-class customer experiences (CX) within their client’s customer service programs.

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One Millimeter Mindset

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Your choice to change professional places with another colleague can be your best opportunity for becoming more visible, relevant, and valuable. While your employer can provide training programs for you, some of these programs fall short of what you feel you need, professionally. However, no one said you cannot create a program for yourself, did they?

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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ReviewTrackers

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Corporate reputation management is a combination of strategies that are used to shape consumer perception of your brand. Today, consumers rely on current customers to tell them whether or not a business is worth their time and money. Consumers look at feedback from online reviews and social media to use in their decision making when selecting a business. .

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Welcome to the MEconomy. Creating the Most Convenient Experience in Customer Support. Shep Hyken interviews Gabe Larsen, VP of Marketing for Kustomer. They discuss the importance of creating a convenient CX and the impact an omnichannel platform has on the way businesses interact with their customers. Top Takeaways: The Me-conomy is about giving the customer what they want, when they want it, how they want it, with little to no effort.

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Team Support

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A playbook for delivering the ultimate customer service experiences. The customer experience is the new marketing. That’s what Micah Solomon, best-selling author, customer service industry consultant, and Forbes contributor, asked as he opened a recent webinar based on his new book , Ignore Your Customers (and They’ll Go Away): The Simple Playbook for Delivering the Ultimate Customer Service Experience.

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Oracle

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Welcome to Experience TV, a LIVE show on social channels about the economic revolution we’re living through, the Experience Economy, where brands compete on the quality of their customer experiences. Here on SmarterCX, you’ll find the replay of each episode and all resources mentioned within. Follow me, Katie Martell, on Twitter , LinkedIn , or the show’s Facebook page to catch future episodes.

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The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story HUMANIZING OUR FUTURE “In the digital revolution, excellent human interaction skills become a premium advantage.” Technological innovations and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) have caused tremendous dislocations in today’s workplace. But the best customer service companies recognize the competitive opportunity.

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Zeisler Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I came across the following article I wrote in an earlier part of my consulting career (I was much thinner then). Without knowing it at the time, I foreshadowed a lot of reflection that I use now as an executive CX consultant and Fractional CCO. At the time my practice was mainly focused on training clients and facilitating workshops in Lean Six Sigma and Agile Project Management among other topics…mostly more transactional than the larger and more strategic work I do with clients these

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Talkdesk for Salesforce can help financial institutions and healthcare providers relieve friction in the COVID-19 relief process. Two major—and positive—developments around the pandemic have jammed up customer service channels. Between the COVID-19 vaccination rollout and round two of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), call volumes have spiked for healthcare providers and financial institutions.

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delighted

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of the most common questions we get from our customers is: What type of survey response rate can I expect? When doing some research, you’ll see a wide range of numbers on what a “good” or “average” survey response rate is. The response rates are usually qualified by a specific distribution channel or survey type: 33% as the average response rate for all survey channels, including in-person and digital ( SurveyAnyplace, 2018 ) >20% being a good survey response rate for NPS surveys ( Genroe,

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